A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq.: Vice-President of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq.: Vice-President of the United States

This may 'tend to Ihow the necefiity there is for infor-v mation, as well as its energy in a free (late. In a defpotic one, it may make a flave miferable by making him fenfible of his condition but in our country, it is the foul that ani mates, and which is alone competent to uphold, the body politic.

It will give no offence to the Majefly of truth to (lay, that' the people, the great mafs, were, like fay/elf, firangers to the conduft of Mr. Burr. It is doubtlefs to this ignorance of character that he owes his elevation. The people can-v not, wittingly, be guilty of a fit lo eleje.

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